Cheryl's Destinies

Name: Cheryl's Destinies
Author: Stephen Sexton
ISBN: 9780141997520

by Stephen Sexton

ISBN: 9780141997520

Published: 2021

English poetry

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 20210A Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 0history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn't0It is the decade of centuries, and Cheryl tells us our fortune. Radicals liberate a zoo, teenagers flirt in a bowling alley, and the dead are cherished. In these inventive, playful, dream-like poems, Stephen Sexton takes us on a journey through the past and the present, while Cheryl translates from the future, showing us how we exist in all three at once.0Reckoning with both public and private tragedies, the book is divided into three parts. In Part One, the poems range across old Europe: 'Edelweiss' and Titanic setting sail, to a transatlantic, cross-century symposium in Part Two, where two giants perfect their arts in collaboration. In Part Three we are back in the land where the past keeps breaking through, it's practically always the anniversary of something terrible, but there's...

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